This message was prompted by a headline in today's Orange County register; "Maker gives U.S. 85 million smallpox-vaccine doses." "The nation's top health officials calls the donation a "huge insurance policy" against bioterrorism."

How safe and neccessary are these smallpox vaccines? The following information that I will relate has been taken from an article entitled, "Biological Warfare...Who is the real enemy? Smallpox -A psycho-plague in the making," written by Rose Stevens Director of Vaccine Safety Concerns for the Common Cause Medical Foundation. Some of the highlights of this article are as follows:

"First of all, it is worth while noting that Edward Jenner, the inventor of the smallpox vaccine, tried out the vaccine on his 10 month old son. He gave his son over 22 vaccinations. His son remained mentally retarded until his death from tuberculosis at the age of 21. Jenner refused to vaccinate his second child."

"One of the worst smallpox epidemics of all time took place in England between 1870-72, nearly two decades after compulsory smallpox vaccines were introduced. The people of Leicaster England refused to have any more vaccines and relied on better sanitation and quarentine. Interestingly enough, there was only one death from small pox in Leicaster during that epidemic. In contrast, citizens in other communities who had been vaccinated, died in vast number.[1] Doctors and drug companies may not like to admit the fact that better living conditions, surveillance, and quarentine got rid of the smallpox -not the vaccine."

"Dr. Matthew J. Rodermund, M.D., of Wisconsen, USA, for years offered $10,ooo to anyone who could prove scientifically that smallpox is contagious. ""In fact, Dr. Rodermund created a sensation by smearing his body with the exudates of smallpox sores in order to demonstrate to his medical colleagues that a healthy body could not be infected with the disease. He was arrested and quarentined in jail, but not before he had come into contact with many people. Not a single case of smallpox developed through this exposure..." [2,3]

"Dr. Charles A.A.Campbell, M.D., of San Antonio, USA, who was for years in charge of an isolation hospital made exhaustive experiments in order to demonstrate that smallpox is contagious, but found that this is not the case."

So who is the real enemy and just how much of a threat is smallpox to a healthy immune system?  I remember that before the anthrax scare began, USA Today had a headline that health officials were concerned that anthrax might be used by bioterrorists. It was only three days later that the first cases of anthrax sprung up. Later on after examining the spores, it was found to be U.S. military grade anthrax!..?! So does the anouncement of a smallpox threat and the Bush administration's push for more vaccine development imply an inevitable bioterrorist attack? [designer smallpox made in the USA]?

When the anthrax scare was on I noticed that some news footage used certain affects and camera techniques to make it all look more scarey than it really was, like a bad horror movie. The real terror-inducer is the mainstream media. So let us not give in to this delusional media-hyped fear syndrone and also explore the truth about alternative forms of dealing with viruses and disease.

Read part 2 on electromedicine.       -s.h.

References for Rose Stevens article:
1.Dr. Vernon Coleman's health letter
2.Philosophy of natural therapeutics
3.Steve Ransom [journalist]
    www.whatareweswallowing.freeserve.co.uk/smallpox1.htm
 

Steve Harkless Last modified: June 14, 2003

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